Piers Morgan savages ‘gutless’ UK leaders – and spills on his feud with Donald Trump

Controversial media personality Piers Morgan has spoken on TV about the UK’s “woeful” government – and his feud with Donald Trump.

Outspoken British TV star Piers Morgan has blasted his own government during a fiery appearance on Today this morning.

Speaking with hosts Karl Stefanovic and Allison Langdon from his home in London, Morgan ripped into the UK government’s bungled handling of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, with Britain now in the grip of a brutal second wave.

According to the Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 tracker, the UK now has the ninth highest tally of cases on the planet with 897,740 infections.

It is also in the fifth position with regards to the coronavirus death toll, with more than 45,000 fatalities.

Morgan said the situation had been a “nightmare” in the UK, and that the crisis had been “particularly bad” there compared with other nations such as Australia.

“We have got an absolutely woeful government, led by that guy, Boris Johnson, who is a blustering buffoon and every single decision he has taken has turned out to be catastrophically wrong and as a result we have the worst death toll of the coronavirus in Europe and the worst economic meltdown too and it is showing no sign of improving sadly,” Morgan said earlier today.

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Piers Morgan also touched on his feud with Donald Trump. Picture: John W Ferguson/Getty Images North America/AFP

“I think they lost control in the first wave spectacularly badly. They made appalling decisions.”

According to Morgan, those decisions included locking down the country “two weeks too late”, which allegedly cost 25,000 lives, sending tens of thousands of elderly people into care homes where they faced a “secondary epidemic”, and allowing 20 million people to fly into the country “from some of the worst-hit places in the world” in March and April without any testing.

“We really let this virus run rip through the country and we have paid a very heavy price for it,” he said.

“Then we released the lockdown too soon and now we are getting the inevitable second wave. It has been a disaster.”

Morgan said not only had leaders lost control of the pandemic, they were also “gutless”, with the entire UK government boycotting his show, Good Morning Britain, for 180 days.

“We kept asking the government ministers aggressively for answers and we didn’t get any and eventually they flew up the white flag and said, ‘We will never come on Good Morning Britain again’. We have great ratings. We thank them for that. But what a bunch of gutless little weasels,” he said.

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Piers Morgan described Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson as a ‘blustering buffoon’. Picture: Jeremy Selwyn/ Pool/AFP

The conversation then turned to Morgan’s fraught relationship with Donald Trump, who famously unfollowed him on Twitter in April after he published an article critical of the US President’s “crazy” coronavirus ideas.

Morgan described the moment as a “big severing of our relationship” and said he then didn’t hear from Mr Trump until he unexpectedly called him at home last weekend.

“In the end, we had a cordial 25-minute conversation about everything. We put a few things to bed. We agreed to disagree about a few things – about a lot of things – actually,” Morgan said.

“But what was interesting was despite all the polls in America indicating he is heading for a big beating to Joe Biden, he believes the polls are wrong, like they were last time, and he thinks he is going to win.”

Morgan also briefly spruiked his new book Wake Up, Why The World Has Gone Nuts, which he said was written to help people “return to common sense and liberalism”.